On 5th of December Apple released security updates to address vulnerabilities in tvOS for Windows and some of these vulnerabilities can be used by the attackers to take control of unpatched system. The below you can see the following vulnerabilities were fixed.
Happy patching!
Airport
Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation)
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A type confusion issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4303: Mohamed Ghannam (@_simo36)
Disk Images
Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation)
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4427: Pangu Team
Kernel
Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation)
Impact: An attacker in a privileged position may be able to perform a denial of service attack
Description: A denial of service issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code.
CVE-2018-4460: Kevin Backhouse of Semmle Security Research Team
Impact: A local user may be able to read kernel memory
Description: A memory initialization issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4431: An independent security researcher has reported this vulnerability to Beyond Security’s SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure program
Impact: A malicious application may be able to elevate privileges
Description: A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions.
CVE-2018-4435: Jann Horn of Google Project Zero, Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Junzhi Lu of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4447: Juwei Lin(@panicaII) and Zhengyu Dong of TrendMicro Mobile Security Team
Impact: An application may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved input validation.
CVE-2018-4461: Ian Beer of Google Project Zero
Profiles
Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation)
Impact: An untrusted configuration profile may be incorrectly displayed as verified
Description: A certificate validation issue existed in configuration profiles. This was addressed with additional checks.
CVE-2018-4436: James Seeley @Code4iOS, Joseph S. of Wyong High School
WebKit
Available for: Apple TV 4K and Apple TV (4th generation)
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4441: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4442: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
CVE-2018-4443: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: A logic issue existed resulting in memory corruption. This was addressed with improved state management.
CVE-2018-4438: lokihardt of Google Project Zero
Impact: Processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
Description: Multiple memory corruption issues were addressed with improved memory handling.
CVE-2018-4437: HyungSeok Han, DongHyeon Oh, and Sang Kil Cha of KAIST Softsec Lab, Korea
CVE-2018-4464: HyungSeok Han, DongHyeon Oh, and Sang Kil Cha of KAIST Softsec Lab, Korea